Aimless Tangents

See, there is still some knitting over here!

With as hot as it has been in Oklahoma lately I’m cooking things that require less heat so as to try to keep my house cooler. Or I’m cooking outside on the grill, or using the toaster oven, or doing other things for food and sweets. My newest sweet is homemade frozen yogurt. There are [...]

A few years ago, when back in Louisiana for Christmas I picked up some reprint postcards of 6 vintage signs from the area. The intention was to frame them up and hang them in my kitchen. However, 3 of the postcards are an odd square size and I didn’t want to pay for custom mats [...]

This isn’t really a recipe, more of a tweak. I spent part of last week trying to decide what sort of sweet confection I wanted to celebrate my 30th birthday with. Saturday I decided on homemade cupcakes. I ran to Target and got a box mix and two tubs of frosting so whoever ate a [...]

Today is my 30th birthday. I’ve had some trouble wrapping my mind around the idea of turning 30. Me, 30 years old, no arguing that I’m “adult”. Huh. But I still feel like I kid. I feel like someone is going to walk up to me and demand that I head back to school, that [...]

June 17, 2006 we did this: Four years later, I’m still laughing: May there be many more years and many more laughs. I can’t think of anyone else I’d rather laugh at with.

I’m going to go ahead and apologize. I don’t measure things. Unless I’m following a specific recipe I usually just add stuff until it looks good or smells right. Gather your ingredients: about five potatoes, mayo, salad dressing, mustard, dill pickles, dill pickle relish, celery salt, and eggs (not pictured) Peel and wash the potatoes [...]

I was inspired by this post over at Fireflies and Jellybeans to make an actual clothesline. Previously I had used the two pine trees and the fence in our backyard and just wound rope around them. Hubs hated it cause he swore it tried to kill him every time he mowed. I didn’t care for [...]